About ITGAP

ITGAP promotes international scientific collaborations between APS members and physicists in developing countries. Grant recipients receive up to $2,000USD to help support travel for the developing or developed country scientist to visit their collaborator abroad for a minimum of one month.

Application Requirements

• Two co-applicants must apply together
• One applicant must be from a developing country, the other from a developed country
• One applicant must be a member of an APS unit that sponsors ITGAP

The deadline to apply is 23 January 2014.

Research in Plasma Physics has multiple and rich outcomes with direct and/or indirect applications. These applications, which are sometimes inconspicuous and even unknown to the layman, can have significant impacts on daily human life as well as on economic activity. Surprisingly, some of the impacts seem far from the basic Plasma Physics research which gave birth to these key original ideas, but nonetheless represent exemplary innovative strategies. Today, applications of Plasma Physics flourish in vastly different domains, such as radioactive waste transmutation, medicine, isotope separation processes (with fundamental applications to cancer therapy), infection treatment, material processing, torch cutting and welding, flat TV screens, lighting systems, thrusters, as well as countless other medical, industrial and engineering applications. Within the general framework of the relationship between "Science and Society", there is a strong effort on communication between research and public domains in many countries.

The European Physical Society is keenly aware of these important applications. As a dual gesture of stimulation and recognition, a new annual prize has been created by the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society. This prize targets research which has demonstrably led to robust innovative applications or important effects on society. Nominations in any fields are encouraged.

Establishment and Support
The prize has been established in 2008 and supported by the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physics Society. The Prize is given once a year and consists of 3000 euros and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient.  More information and previous winners can be found at :  http://plasma.ciemat.es/eps/awards/innovation-award/

Rules and eligibility :
Nominees need not now be working on the topics. Any work may be submitted. The recognized contribution may be a product, a process or a tool enabling practical application issued directly from plasma physics field.
Existing applications (i.e. excluding those expected to be developped within a short time or forthcoming future) will be taken into consideration. Moreover, applications developped in areas outside the plasma research field in which these were born will be analyzed by the jury. High technology products /tools which represent only extensions of works developped in the same original research field will be not considered.
Nominees need not to be EPS members. Nominees candidatures are submitted by nominators as detailed below. Proposals for prize sharing are also admitted. There is no restriction in terms of geography and/or nationality.


Nominations and selection Process
A broad spectrum of nominations and in particular from companies/institutions/National and/or Universities laboratories are encouraged to apply. To complete the nomination, you (the nominator) are asked to provide the EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize nomination form by November 8th 2013.
   

Completed forms should be sent to
Chair of the EPS Plasma Physics Division
Dr. Sylvie Jacquemot
LULI, Ecole Polytechnique
91128 Palaiseau cedex
France
Email address: sylvie.jacquemot@polytechnique.edu

Contacts

• Bertrand Lembège :     bertrand.lembege@latmos.ipsl.fr
• Holger Kernsten :         kersten@physik.uni-kiel.de
• Achim.vonKeudell:      Achim.vonKeudell@rub.de

More info

Website of the EPS Plasma Physics Division
Call for nominations for the 2014 EPS Plasma Physics Innovation prize

This is the July - September 2013 newsletter that informs about selected biophysics articles published in European physics and biophysics journals. Please share other relevant information, e.g. about interesting conferences. Marek Cieplak Chairman of the DPL EPS

DPL website DPL newsletters

List of papers:

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Number 28, 17 July 2013


- "The effect of cross-link distributions in axially-ordered, cross-linked
   networks"
  C Brad Bennett, James Kruczek, D A Rabson, W Garrett Matthews
  and Sagar A Pandit
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/28/285101/article

- "Molecular dynamics simulations of single-component bottle-brush
   polymers with flexible backbones under poor solvent conditions"
  Nikolaos G Fytas and Panagiotis E Theodorakis
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/28/285105/article

Number 32, 14 August 2013

- "The self-assembly of particles with isotropic interactions"
  K von Konigslow, E D Cardenas-Mendez, R B Thompson and K Rasmussen
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/32/325101/article

- "Soliton driven relaxation dynamics and protein collapse in the villin
   headpiece"
  Andrey Krokhotin, Martin Lundgren, Antti J Niemi and Xubiao Peng
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/32/325103/article

Number 37, 18 September 2013

- "Identification of unique interactions between the flexible linker
   and the RecA-like domains of DEAD-box helicase Mss116"
  Yuan Zhang, MirkPalla, Andrew Sun and Jung-Chi Liao
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/374101/article

- "The load dependence of the physical properties of a molecular motor"
  Xianchao Meng, Min Yu and Yunxin Zhang
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/374102/article


- "Microtubule organization by kinesin motors and microtubule crosslinking
   protein MAP65"
  Joshua Pringle, Amutha Muthukumar, Amanda Tan, Laura Crankshaw,
  Leslie Conway and Jennifer L Ross
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/374103/article

- "Backtracking dynamics of RNA polymerase: pausing and error correction"
  Mamata Sahoo and Stefan Klumpp
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/374104/article

- "First-passage problems in DNA replication: effects of template tension
   on stepping and exonuclease activities of a DNA polymerase motor"
  Ajeet K Sharma and Debashish Chowdhury
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/374105/article


- "Modelling amyloid fibril formation kinetics: mechanisms of nucleation
   and growth"
  J E Gillam and C E MacPhee
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/373101/article

- "Mutarotation in biologically important pure L-fucose and its
   enantiomer"
  P Wlodarczyk, A Cecotka, K Adrjanowicz, K Kaminski and M Paluch
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/375101/article

- "On the distribution of DNA translocation times in solid-state
   nanopores: an analysis using Schringer's first-passage-time theory"
  Daniel Y Ling and Xinsheng Sean Ling
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/375102/article

- "Evidence of Gumbel distributions of conductance fluctuations in
   bacteriorhodopsin thin films"
  E Alfinito and L Reggiani
  http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/25/37/375103/article

The European Space Agency is proud to announce a new edition of the Drop Your Thesis! programme. Through this programme, a team of university students will be given the opportunity to carry out a microgravity experiment, at the ZARM Drop Tower Facility in Bremen, Germany. ZARM is one of the most sophisticated research centres of its kind in Europe and boasts a 146 m high tower that provides experiments with up to 9.3 seconds of microgravity.

The submission deadline for experiment proposals is January 19, 2014.

The selected team will perform its experiment during ESA's sixth Drop your Thesis! campaign, to be held in autumn 2014.

The details of this programme, including instructions on how to apply, can be found on the ESA Education Office Website at www.esa.int/education.

From Saturday, 5th October 2013, and for three months, the ESRF will be a pivotal element of an exhibition called "The Chamber of Echo” (La chambre d’écho), organised by the Grenoble Centre for Scientific, Industrial and Technical Culture (CCSTI). The work is staged in the orange grove that borders the lush botanical gardens of the town’s Natural History Museum.

Read the full article on the ESRF website.